Carter's (CRI) Competitors

Carter's (NYSE:CRI) and PVH (NYSE:PVH) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CRI or PVH?

PVH has higher revenue and earnings than Carter's. Carter's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PVH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carter's	$2.81B	0.42	$232.50M	$4.52	7.16
PVH	$8.65B	0.46	$663.60M	$10.56	7.89

Is CRI or PVH a better dividend stock?

Carter's pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. PVH pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Carter's pays out 22.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PVH pays out 1.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Carter's has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Carter's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Is CRI or PVH more profitable?

PVH has a net margin of 8.13% compared to Carter's' net margin of 8.11%. Carter's' return on equity of 27.15% beat PVH's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carter's	8.11%	27.15%	9.61%
PVH	8.13%	13.66%	6.35%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in CRI or PVH?

97.3% of PVH shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Carter's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PVH shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate CRI or PVH?

Carter's currently has a consensus price target of $36.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.65%. PVH has a consensus price target of $106.47, suggesting a potential upside of 27.80%. Given PVH's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PVH is more favorable than Carter's.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carter's	3 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.40
PVH	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Which has more risk and volatility, CRI or PVH?

Carter's has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PVH has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to CRI or PVH?

In the previous week, PVH had 4 more articles in the media than Carter's. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for PVH and 12 mentions for Carter's. PVH's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Carter's' score of 0.74 indicating that PVH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Carter's	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
PVH	10 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CRI or PVH?

PVH received 652 more outperform votes than Carter's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.79% of users gave PVH an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Carter's	Outperform Votes 395 58.78%	Underperform Votes 277 41.22%
PVH	Outperform Votes 1047 70.79%	Underperform Votes 432 29.21%

Summary

PVH beats Carter's on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.